The 19-Year Marathon to Keep Taiwan's Music "Fresh"

How does an outside perspective help protect the heart of Taiwanese music? In this episode, Aurelia Chuah chats with Chen Yu Neng (陳玉能) aka Lao Huang Gua (老黃瓜), founder of Singapore's FreshmusicSG - a music site on Mandopop and Sinophone music. They chat about FreshmusicSG's dedicated annual marath…

Selling vintage clothes on Shopee: A game you know you couldn’t win, but must be played

Hi! My name is Jim Chiang, and I've always been a fan of fashion. But among all its different categories, vintage stands out, because each piece carries a history that can't be replicated, a story that belongs to a specific moment in time. That's what makes it fascinating, and that's what keeps pul…

The Butterfly Kingdom

Charis Hayward interviews Dr. Frank Yu-feng Hsu (Professor, Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University) on his lifetime spent researching butterflies and moths. He tells stories about discovering new species and his conservation efforts. After the interview, Hayward visits and de…

Finding home when you belong everywhere

In Taiwan, the traditional script for finding “home” has always been anchored to your family of origin: stay close to your parents, get a stable local job, buy an apartment, marry, and settle down. But for a new generation raised to be “global citizens” and encouraged to cross borders, that's start…

How a $10,000 USD scam hit compliance worker

Michael Doan sits down with Chelsea who worked in compliance - a job that stresses background checks and fraud prevention. Despite this, Chelsea fell victim to a sophisticated phone scam that cost her $10,000 USD and her most sensitive personal data when she was living in the U.S.  Michael Doan is…

The psychology of style: Inside the Taipei Fashion Week

In this episode, I take you with me to Taipei Fashion Week to answer one simple question: how does fashion make people feel? By mixing real sounds from the event with my own thoughts in the studio, I explore the connection between what we wear and who we are. Through my conversations with people t…

On a mission to rescue Taiwan’s long-neglected “dirt dogs”

“I think in Taiwan you either love dogs or you do not care for them,” Mary Choi says. Choi is the founder of Mary’s Doggies, a dog rescue nonprofit in Taiwan that works to find stray dogs loving families – often in countries like the U.S. Taiwan is home to thousands of stray dogs, known as “tugous…